Mouhcine Guettabi,Abdul Munasib
Mouhcine Guettabi
Over the last two decades, both bankruptcy and obesity rates in the U.S. have seen a steady rise. As obesity is one of the leading causes of medical and morbidity related economic costs, its influence on personal bankruptcy is analyzed in t...
Diane Coffey
Diane Coffey
Height is a marker for health, cognitive ability and economic productivity. Recent research on the determinants of height suggests that postneonatal mortality predicts height because it is a measure of the early life disease environment to ...
Differences in height by education among 371,105 Dutch military conscripts [0.03%]
荷兰军人征召对象中371,105人受教育程度与身高的差异分析
Ying Huang,Frans van Poppel,L H Lumey
Ying Huang
Adult height is associated with a variety of familial and socio-economic factors and large, well-defined populations are needed for a reliable assessment of their relative contributions. We therefore analyzed recorded heights from the milit...
Does health education affect BMI? Evidence from a school-based randomised-control trial [0.03%]
健康教育影响体重指数吗？来自基于学校的随机对照试验的证据
Toni Mora,Esteve Llargués,Assumpta Recasens
Toni Mora
We examine the effects of a comprehensive school-based health education programme (introducing healthy habits in the curriculum) to combat childhood obesity in the mid-size urban city of Granollers (Catalonia, Spain). The intervention was c...
Randomized Controlled Trial
Economics and human biology. 2015 Apr:17:190-201. DOI:10.1016/j.ehb.2014.11.001 2015
Daniel L Millimet,Rusty Tchernis
Daniel L Millimet
While childhood obesity has become a significant public health concern over the last few decades, and underweight children continue to be a concern, knowledge pertaining to the origins of or persistence in childhood anthropometric measures ...
Pinka Chatterji,Kajal Lahiri,Dohyung Kim
Pinka Chatterji
Using a sample of sibling pairs from a nationally representative U.S. survey, we examine the effects of the fetal growth rate on a set of neurobehavioral outcomes in childhood measured by parent-reported diagnosed developmental disabilities...
Social capital and health: evidence that ancestral trust promotes health among children of immigrants [0.03%]
社会信任对移民后代健康的影响：社会资本与健康的证据研究
Martin Ljunge
Martin Ljunge
This paper presents evidence that generalized trust promotes health. Children of immigrants in a broad set of European countries with ancestry from across the world are studied. Individuals are examined within country of residence using var...
Toward a quantitative theory of food consumption choices and body weight [0.03%]
朝向量化理论：食品消费选择和体重的关系
Sebastien Buttet,Veronika Dolar
Sebastien Buttet
We propose a calibrated dynamic model of food consumption choices and body weight to study changes in daily caloric intake, weight, and the away-from-home share of calories consumed by adult men and women in the U.S. during the period betwe...
Decomposing race and gender differences in underweight and obesity in South Africa [0.03%]
南非体重不足和肥胖的性别和种族差异分析
Susan L Averett,Nicholas Stacey,Yang Wang
Susan L Averett
Using data from the National Income Dynamics Study, we document differentials in both underweight and obesity across race and gender in post-Apartheid South Africa. Using a nonlinear decomposition method, we decompose these differences acro...
Breastfeeding and child disability: a comparison of siblings from the United States [0.03%]
母乳喂养与儿童残疾：来自美国的同卵双胞胎对照研究
George L Wehby
George L Wehby
Little is known about whether breastfeeding may prevent disabilities throughout childhood. We evaluate the effects of breastfeeding on child disability using data from the National Survey of Family Growth merged to the National Health Inter...